Monica McQuaid, PhD

Monica McQuaid, PhD, is Director, Adult Literacy Program, Fisher Landau Center for the Treatment of Learning Disabilities, Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (RFK CERC) at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. McQuaid has a life-span perspective on learning disabilities. She conducts psychoeducational evaluations and provides psychoeducational treatment to adults who have had life-long learning struggles.

After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Boston College in 1985, Dr. McQuaid earned her Master of Arts in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, in 1988. She completed externships in child and adult clinical neuropsychology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center the same year. Following this, Dr. McQuaid completed a pre-doctoral internship in child and adult clinical neuropsychology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Hillside Hospital in 1990. She then earned her Doctor of Philosophy in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Victoria in 1993.

Dr. McQuaid’s research focuses on learning disabilities. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed publications, and she has given several conference and symposia presentations, as well as community presentations.

Dr. McQuaid is a member of the American Psychological Association, the International Neuropsychological Society and the National Academy of Neuropsychology.